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bachmeier

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About bachmeier

I'm no longer active on HN. If for some reason you want to see what I'm writing now, you can find it at https://bachmeil.github.io/the-blog/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48540275

    Have a nice day.

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    Comment #48531070

    It isn't. The entirety of the comment I responded to is "Oh no, someone is profiting off of their work without proper attribution!?!?" It's a valid point, but references someone us…

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    Comment #48529641

    "Their work"? First you had the original content creators that did 99.99% of the work. Then you had the US companies bundle it up into a frontier LLM. Then "they" did the "work" of…

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    Comment #48521849

    > I think the distinction between vibe coding and hitl based coding routines will blur as workflows prove themselves There's far less need for what the author refers to as frontier…

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    Comment #48520024

    > The upfront cost is steep and the models you can actually run at home are weaker than what the frontier labs ship, so this only pays off if you can keep the rig busy with long ru…

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    Comment #48517736

    The entire reason Mozilla came into being is to do things like improve the user experience for IRC so we can keep the internet open. There has never been any other reason for Mozil…

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    Comment #48517696

    > I felt sort of betrayed in that moment: the company that was all about openness and to which I dedicated countless hours doing unpaid work for and even more years evangelizing fo…

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    Comment #48508859

    Kagi: The search engine priced for Silicon Valley software engineers. Apparently it has enough customers to keep the doors open though.

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    Comment #48507805

    From the phrasing of the sentence, with the incorrect gender and the generic nature of the comment, obviously not.

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    Comment #48504827

    I think the issue with AUR is that you get your foot in the door with packages like spotify[1]. It does its magic to allow you to install a .deb package on your distro. I don't kno…

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    Comment #48504087

    Honestly, it's hard to see how Arch is a usable distro for most potential users without AUR. If you want a large selection of official packages, the Debian world is going to be the…

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    Comment #48503895

    So what's a solution to this? Install packages like this in Docker containers without network access? I don't think we should assume it's limited to AUR. Every software source shou…

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    Comment #48491328

    > So maybe it is, indeed, time to panic a bit? Anyone relying on a steady paycheck from an employer should panic a bit all the time, because nothing can save them from bad manageme…

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    Comment #48490669

    I don't see LOC as that different from number of hours in the office. They'd always say pre-pandemic "If they're not in the office, how will I know they're working?" Simple, use th…

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    Comment #48480837

    Thanks. I found this other comment that links to a very thorough explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479042

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    Comment #48480671

    > This actually makes 0 sense. Like, do you even understand what you're saying? It makes perfect sense if the decision to work is based on real, after-tax income. Change the commen…

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    Comment #48480384

    > DiffusionGemma reverses this inefficiency. Instead of predicting words sequentially, it drafts an entire 256-token paragraph simultaneously. By giving the computer's processor a …

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    Comment #48480149

    > Why is it more work? As someone that reads a lot of code written by others, I'm confident that "learning a new way to do something" is perceived by many as the hardest thing in t…

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    Comment #48449341

    I'd be curious if any of your customers have tried 3.1 Flash Lite. It's cheaper than 2.5 Flash, and in my experience with the free tier, quite an upgrade in terms of quality of res…

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    Comment #48446786

    Whether or not it counts as social media, there is no algorithm targeting individuals as far as I know. Social media in the sense of HN is just the internet.

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    Comment #48417853

    > that you went from those quaint, dismissive observations to a slightly panicked, "Uh Oh" realization of what these models can do? Never experienced any kind of panic, only excite…

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    Comment #48412446

    > 70% complete, 10% indirect and 20% wrong I haven't had too much problem with information in summaries being wrong, but there have been times the LLM will miss the most important …

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    Comment #48388792

    A strong business case for Gemma includes fine tuning, adding AI to apps that run in the cloud, strengthening Android, shifting unprofitable small AI compute to devices, and harmin…

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    Comment #48313735

    Your comment is a slice of the reasoning underlying the "AI will take all the jobs" claim. I would constantly see references to what AI could do and how fast it was improving. Neve…

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    Comment #48299304

    But that's not the standard definition of "opt-in". See for instance MW: "to choose to do or be involved in something".